Horseshoe



(No Model.)

1. FENNO.

HORSESHOE. No. 289,402. Patented Dec. 4, 1883.

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ISAAC FENNO, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HORSESHOE,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,402, dated December 4, 1883.

Application filed January-29, 1883. (No model.) i Q To all whom it may concern Be itknown that I, Isaac FnNNo, of Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Horseshoes, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

My invention, relating to horeshoes, has for its object to provide means for readily attaching shoes of different character to the horses foot. In some climates the surface of the ground will be for a short time covered with ice,-requiring long sharp calks on the horses shoe, and then in a few days the ice will have disappeared, leaving the ground bare and frozen, and requiring a shoe without calks for the comfort of the horse. It results from this that, with the ordinary method of attaching shoes, the

horse would have to be frequently reshod, or

. else would have to wear unsuitable shoes during a large portion of the time. Detachable calks have been employed, but as yet without very great success.

My invention is embodied in a double shoe for each hoof, one shoe being permanently at tached to the hoof by nails, or in any usual manner, and being called for distinction the permanent shoe, and the other,which may be termed the wearing or detachable shoe, and which will be varied according to the condition of the roads, being adapted to be quickly attached to or removed from the said permanent shoe, so that it is possible, by having two or three different kinds of wearing-shoes, to prepare the horse at a moments notice for i any kind of road. The permanent shoe is provided at its toe end with a dovetailed socket extending back a short distance from thetoe prevent the disengagement of the dovetail at thetoe end of the shoe. The heel end of the detachable shoe is fastened to the permanent shoe by a wire twisted around the two shoes, which prevents the disengagement of their-projections and sockets, and thus securely fastens the two together, the strength of the union between the shoes depending on-the projections, rather than on the fastening device, which, by merely supporting the weight of the shoe, keeps the said projections in position.

I am aware that it is not new to have a detachable wearing-face for a horseshoe, and do not broadly claim such construction.

Figure l is an under side view of a horseshoe embodying this invention, a portion of the detachable shoe being broken away; Fig. 2, a front elevation thereof; Fig. 3, a section on line as m, Fig. 1, of the heel portion of the shoe; Fig. 4, an end elevation of the heel portion of the shoe, and Fig. 5 is a cross-section in the plane of line y g Fig. 3.

The main or permanent shoe a, attached to the hoof in any usual manner, is providedwith a dovetail socket, 2, in its forward or toe portion, extending back a short distance from the front of the shoe, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1, and the said permanent shoe is also provided with one or more engaging projections, 1), near the heel end of each side of the shoe. The detachable or wearing shoe 0 (shown in this instance as provided with long sharp calks d cl for use upon icy roads) has a dovetail projection, e, at its toe end, fitted to'the socket 2 of the shoe (1, and has holes or sockets 4 in its heel portions, properly located to receive the projections 22 whenthe shoes ac coincide. Thus by placing the shoe a slightly forward of the shoe a and sliding it backward thereon, the dovetail 6 will be carried into its socket 2, and then by pressing the shoe 0 against the shoe to the projections 12 will enter the sockets 4:, thus preventing the withdrawal of the dovetail e from its socket, so that the two shoes are securely fastened together at their toe ends, and retained in coincidence throughout; and in order to securely fasten the shoe 0, it is only necessary to prevent its heel end from dropping far enough to disengage the projections b. A

fastening device for this purpose is shown as consisting of a wire, h, twisted around the coinciding heels of the two shoes, just in front enings h and the shoe 0 may be removed by a coachman or teamster, and another shoe having similar projections and recesses for attachment to the shoe a, but a different lower or wearing face suitable for the new condition of the roads, may be attached to the shoe a in a similar manner.

I claim The permanent shoe a, having the dovetail socket 2 and projections 72 I), combined with the detachable shoe 0, having the dovetail proj ection 6 and sockets 4 4, and the fastening-wires, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed myname to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ISAAC FENNO.

Witnesses:

Jos. P. LIVERMORE, FRED A. POWELL. 

